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Title: Extinction Rebellion Occupy London : VIDEO DIARY 2 OF 4
Source/publisher: Just Have a Think
Date of publication: 2019-04-21
Description: "Extinction Rebellion were still holding strong in London on Wednesday 17th April 2019. In the second of four video diaries I go out again to meet some of the protestors and gauge local reaction..."
Creator/author: Dave Borlace
Date of entry/update: 2019-05-28
Type: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Title: Extinction Rebellion Occupy London : VIDEO DIARY 1 OF 4
Source/publisher: Just Have a Think
Date of publication: 2019-04-21
Description: "Extinction Rebellion put their plan to occupy London into action on Monday 15th April 2019. This is the first of four video diaries of my travels around the various occupied sites during the week to track progress of the protest..."
Creator/author: Dave Borlace
Date of entry/update: 2019-05-28
Type: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Title: UN INDEPENDENT INTERNATIONAL FACT-FINDING MISSION ON MYANMAR URGES FINANCIAL ISOLATION OF MYANMAR MILITARY
Source/publisher: UN Human Rights Council via "Progressive Voice"
Date of publication: 2019-05-14
Description: "The UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar (FFM) urged the international community on Tuesday to cut off all financial and other support to Myanmar’s military, saying its commanders need to be isolated and brought before a credible court to answer charges of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. FFM Chairperson Marzuki Darusman said the measures were needed because Myanmar has not done enough to resolve the nation’s conflicts and protect human rights, including those of over a million ethnic Rohingya civilians who have been forced into exile. “There has been no movement toward a resolution of the crisis,” Darusman said at the conclusion of a 10-day visit to Bangladesh, Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia. “The situation is at a total standstill.” The FFM’s 444-page report, submitted to the Human Rights Council in September 2018, documented how Myanmar’s military brutally and systemically violated the human rights of ethnic minorities throughout the country. It focused on the military’s ‘clearance operations’ against the Rohingya minority in Rakhine State in 2017, when security forces killed thousands of Rohingya civilians, raped and sexually abused women and girls and burned their villages in an explosion of violence that forced the exodus of more than 700,000 people in two months. Both military and civilian sides of Myanmar’s government persistently deny the facts and disclaim any responsibility for crimes under international law. Following this violence, Myanmar authorities have leveled empty Rohingya villages with bulldozers, effectively destroying criminal evidence, while making no substantive progress in resolving the ethnic animosities that have helped fuel the crisis..."
Date of entry/update: 2019-05-26
Type: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Title: Sequencing Peace Agreements and Constitutions in the Political Settlement Process - နိုင်ငံရေးဖြေရှင်းချက်လုပ်ငန်းစဉ်တွင် ငြိမ်းချမ်းရေးသဘောတူညီချက်များနှင့်ဖွဲ့စည်းပုံအခြေခံဥပဒေများကို ရှေ့နောက်စီစဉ်ဆောင်ရွက်ခြင်း
Source/publisher: International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA)
Date of publication: 2016-11-01
Description: "This Policy Paper focuses on sequencing peace agreements and constitutional arrangements within the broader political settlement processes in fragile and conflictaffected settings. Political settlements comprise the underlying agreed understandings about how power is to be held and exercised. It is often assumed that there is a specific sequence to reach a political settlement: typically, a ceasefire or peace agreement that includes (or is followed by) transitional political arrangements or an interim constitution that culminates in some form of long-term constitutional arrangement. According to this assumption, the political settlement is understood to develop as part of the peace and constitution-building process. In practice, matters are likely to be much more complicated. Peace agreements and constitutional arrangements often fail to reflect a broadly shared political settlement, and require further negotiations to resolve conflict and start building sustainable peace. Political settlements can be understood, on the one hand, as distinct from peace agreements and constitutional arrangements, but on the other hand as part of the same jigsaw puzzle, which may be arranged in different ways that often depart from the linear model. For instance, while both peace agreements and constitutional arrangements may reflect an underlying political understanding between the parties at the negotiating table, the connection between these documents and any shared political settlement can vary significantly. While peace agreements primarily aim to end a conflict, and are the result of negotiations between most (if not all) parties to the conflict, they can take different forms, including (a) ceasefires or other pre-negotiation agreements; (b) framework peace agreements that also address the core issues of the conflict; and (c) implementation agreements. Transitional political arrangements, interim constitutions and final constitutions will often be intermingled with ceasefire or peace agreements in complex sequences. Whether or not the process starts with a ceasefire/peace agreement, the parties often reach some form of transitional political arrangement that sets the stage for how power is to be held and exercised for a limited time. Transitional political arrangements only provide an attenuated legal framework, either working outside the former legal structures or within the arrangements of the pre-existing constitution. Interim constitutions can form an additional step towards a final constitution by providing a clearer constitutional structure with legal supremacy, sometimes enabling elections, and providing a roadmap for negotiating and drafting a final constitution. Since 1990, a total of 23 political settlement processes in fragile and conflict-affected settings have concluded in a ‘final’ constitution (see Chapter 3). Based on an analysis of these processes, this paper identifies four broad sequencing patterns..." "ဤမူဝါဒစာတမ်းတွင် ထိလွယ်ရှလွယ် အခြေအနေများနှင့် ပဋိပက္ခသက်ရောက်မှုရှိသည့် နယ်မြေများ၌ ပိုမိုကျယ်ပြန့်သော နိုင်ငံရေးဖြေရှင်းချက် လုပ်ငန်းစဉ်များအတွင်း ငြိမ်းချမ်းရေး သဘောတူညီချက်များနှင့် ဖွဲ့စည်းပုံအခြေခံဥပဒေဆိုင်ရာအစီအမံများကို ရှေ့နောက်စီစဉ်ခြင်း အကြောင်း အဓိကတင်ပြထားပါသည်။ နိုင်ငံရေးဖြေရှင်းချက်ဆိုသည်မှာ လုပ်ပိုင်ခွင့်အာဏာ လက်ဝယ်ထားရှိပုံနှင့် ကျင့်သုံးပုံဆိုင်ရာ အခြေခံ နားလည်သဘောပေါက်မှုများကို သဘော တူညီထားခြင်း ဖြစ်ပါသည်။ နိုင်ငံရေး ဖြေရှင်းချက်ရရှိရေး လုပ်ငန်းစဉ်မှာ လုပ်ဆောင်ရမည့် လုပ်ငန်းများ ရှေ့နောက်အစီအစဉ် အတိအကျရှိသည်ဟု ယူဆကြလေ့ ရှိပါသည်။ များသော အားဖြင့် အပစ်အခတ်ရပ်စဲရေး သဘောတူညီချက် သို့မဟုတ် ငြိမ်းချမ်းရေးသဘောတူညီချက်ကို ဦးစွာ ရယူပါသည်။ ယင်းသဘောတူညီချက်တွင် အကူးအပြောင်းကာလ နိုင်ငံရေးအစီအမံများ သို့မဟုတ် ကြားဖြတ် ဖွဲ့စည်းပုံအခြေခံဥပဒေ တစ်ပါတည်း ပါဝင်သည်လည်း ရှိပါသည်၊ ယင်း သဘောတူညီချက် ရရှိပြီးနောက်မှ ဆက်လက်၍ စီမံသည်လည်း ရှိပါသည်။ နောက်ဆုံးတွင် ဖွဲ့စည်းပုံအခြေခံဥပဒေဖြင့် အုပ်ချုပ်မည့် ကာလရှည်အစီအမံ တစ်မျိုးမျိုး ပေါ်ပေါက်လာစေရန် အပြီးသတ် လုပ်ဆောင်ပါသည်။ ဤယူဆချက်အရ နိုင်ငံရေးဖြေရှင်းချက်သည် ငြိမ်းချမ်းရေးနှင့် ဖွဲ့စည်းပုံအခြေခံဥပဒေ တည်ဆောက်ရေးလုပ်ငန်းစဉ်၏ တစ်စိတ်တစ်ဒေသအဖြစ် ပေါ်ထွက်လာ သည်ဟု နားလည်ထားကြပါသည်။ လက်တွေ့တွင် ထို့ထက်ပိုလွန်၍ များစွာရှုပ်ထွေးမှု ရှိနိုင် ပါသည်။ ငြိမ်းချမ်းရေးသဘောတူညီချက်များနှင့် ဖွဲ့စည်းပုံအခြေခံဥပဒေဆိုင်ရာ အစီအမံများသည် ကျယ်ပြန့်စွာ လက်ခံထားသော နိုင်ငံရေးဖြေရှင်းချက်ကို ထင်ဟပ်လျက် စီစဉ်ဆောင်ရွက်ထားခြင်း များမဟုတ်ဘဲ ပဋိပက္ခကို ဖြေရှင်းရန်နှင့် ရေရှည်တည်တံ့ခိုင်မြဲမည့် ငြိမ်းချမ်းရေးကို စတင်တည် ဆောက်နိုင်ရန် နောက်ထပ်ဆွေးနွေးညှိနှိုင်းမှုများ လိုအပ်နေတတ်ပါသည်။ နိုင်ငံရေးဖြေရှင်းချက်များသည် ငြိမ်းချမ်းရေးသဘောတူညီချက်များ၊ ဖွဲ့စည်းပုံအခြေခံဥပဒေ အစီအမံများနှင့် မတူညီဘဲ သီးခြားစီဖြစ်သည်ဟု ယူဆမည်ဆိုက ယူဆနိုင်သော်လည်း ဖြစ်စဉ် တစ်ခုတည်း၏ အစိတ်အပိုင်းများအဖြစ် ရှေ့နောက်အစီအစဉ် တစ်မျိုးတည်းမဟုတ်ဘဲ အမျိုးမျိုး လုပ်ဆောင်နိုင်သော ဆက်စပ်လုပ်ငန်းများဟုလည်း ယူဆနိုင်ပါသည်။ ဥပမာ ဆွေးနွေးပွဲတွင် ပါဝင်ဆွေးနွေးခဲ့ကြသော အစုအဖွဲ့ အသီးသီးအကြား အခြေခံနိုင်ငံရေး နားလည်မှုကို အခြေခံ လျက် ငြိမ်းချမ်းရေး သဘောတူညီချက်များချုပ်ဆိုပြီး ဖွဲ့စည်းပုံအခြေခံဥပဒေ အစီအမံများ လုပ်ဆောင်ခြင်း ဖြစ်နိုင်သော်လည်း ယင်းတို့နှင့် နိုင်ငံရေးဖြေရှင်းချက်အကြား ဆက်စပ်ပုံမှာ များစွာ ကွဲပြားခြားနားနိုင်ပါသည်။..."
Creator/author: Christine Bell, Kimana Zulueta-Fülscher
Date of entry/update: 2019-05-26
Type: Individual Documents
Language: English, Burmese (မြန်မာဘာသာ)
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Title: Sequencing Peace Agreements and Constitutions in the Political Settlement Process - နိုင်ငံရေးဖြေရှင်းချက်လုပ်ငန်းစဉ်တွင် ငြိမ်းချမ်းရေးသဘောတူညီချက်များနှင့်ဖွဲ့စည်းပုံအခြေခံဥပဒေများကို ရှေ့နောက်စီစဉ်ဆောင်ရွက်ခြင်း
Source/publisher: International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA)
Date of publication: 2019-05-23
Description: "ဤမူဝါဒစာတမ်းတွင် ထိလွယ်ရှလွယ် အခြေအနေများနှင့် ပဋိပက္ခသက်ရောက်မှုရှိသည့် နယ်မြေများ၌ ပိုမိုကျယ်ပြန့်သော နိုင်ငံရေးဖြေရှင်းချက် လုပ်ငန်းစဉ်များအတွင်း ငြိမ်းချမ်းရေး သဘောတူညီချက်များနှင့် ဖွဲ့စည်းပုံအခြေခံဥပဒေဆိုင်ရာအစီအမံများကို ရှေ့နောက်စီစဉ်ခြင်း အကြောင်း အဓိကတင်ပြထားပါသည်။ နိုင်ငံရေးဖြေရှင်းချက်ဆိုသည်မှာ လုပ်ပိုင်ခွင့်အာဏာ လက်ဝယ်ထားရှိပုံနှင့် ကျင့်သုံးပုံဆိုင်ရာ အခြေခံ နားလည်သဘောပေါက်မှုများကို သဘော တူညီထားခြင်း ဖြစ်ပါသည်။ နိုင်ငံရေး ဖြေရှင်းချက်ရရှိရေး လုပ်ငန်းစဉ်မှာ လုပ်ဆောင်ရမည့် လုပ်ငန်းများ ရှေ့နောက်အစီအစဉ် အတိအကျရှိသည်ဟု ယူဆကြလေ့ ရှိပါသည်။ များသော အားဖြင့် အပစ်အခတ်ရပ်စဲရေး သဘောတူညီချက် သို့မဟုတ် ငြိမ်းချမ်းရေးသဘောတူညီချက်ကို ဦးစွာ ရယူပါသည်။ ယင်းသဘောတူညီချက်တွင် အကူးအပြောင်းကာလ နိုင်ငံရေးအစီအမံများ သို့မဟုတ် ကြားဖြတ် ဖွဲ့စည်းပုံအခြေခံဥပဒေ တစ်ပါတည်း ပါဝင်သည်လည်း ရှိပါသည်၊ ယင်း သဘောတူညီချက် ရရှိပြီးနောက်မှ ဆက်လက်၍ စီမံသည်လည်း ရှိပါသည်။ နောက်ဆုံးတွင် ဖွဲ့စည်းပုံအခြေခံဥပဒေဖြင့် အုပ်ချုပ်မည့် ကာလရှည်အစီအမံ တစ်မျိုးမျိုး ပေါ်ပေါက်လာစေရန် အပြီးသတ် လုပ်ဆောင်ပါသည်။ ဤယူဆချက်အရ နိုင်ငံရေးဖြေရှင်းချက်သည် ငြိမ်းချမ်းရေးနှင့် ဖွဲ့စည်းပုံအခြေခံဥပဒေ တည်ဆောက်ရေးလုပ်ငန်းစဉ်၏ တစ်စိတ်တစ်ဒေသအဖြစ် ပေါ်ထွက်လာ သည်ဟု နားလည်ထားကြပါသည်။ လက်တွေ့တွင် ထို့ထက်ပိုလွန်၍ များစွာရှုပ်ထွေးမှု ရှိနိုင် ပါသည်။ ငြိမ်းချမ်းရေးသဘောတူညီချက်များနှင့် ဖွဲ့စည်းပုံအခြေခံဥပဒေဆိုင်ရာ အစီအမံများသည် ကျယ်ပြန့်စွာ လက်ခံထားသော နိုင်ငံရေးဖြေရှင်းချက်ကို ထင်ဟပ်လျက် စီစဉ်ဆောင်ရွက်ထားခြင်း များမဟုတ်ဘဲ ပဋိပက္ခကို ဖြေရှင်းရန်နှင့် ရေရှည်တည်တံ့ခိုင်မြဲမည့် ငြိမ်းချမ်းရေးကို စတင်တည် ဆောက်နိုင်ရန် နောက်ထပ်ဆွေးနွေးညှိနှိုင်းမှုများ လိုအပ်နေတတ်ပါသည်။ နိုင်ငံရေးဖြေရှင်းချက်များသည် ငြိမ်းချမ်းရေးသဘောတူညီချက်များ၊ ဖွဲ့စည်းပုံအခြေခံဥပဒေ အစီအမံများနှင့် မတူညီဘဲ သီးခြားစီဖြစ်သည်ဟု ယူဆမည်ဆိုက ယူဆနိုင်သော်လည်း ဖြစ်စဉ် တစ်ခုတည်း၏ အစိတ်အပိုင်းများအဖြစ် ရှေ့နောက်အစီအစဉ် တစ်မျိုးတည်းမဟုတ်ဘဲ အမျိုးမျိုး လုပ်ဆောင်နိုင်သော ဆက်စပ်လုပ်ငန်းများဟုလည်း ယူဆနိုင်ပါသည်။ ဥပမာ ဆွေးနွေးပွဲတွင် ပါဝင်ဆွေးနွေးခဲ့ကြသော အစုအဖွဲ့ အသီးသီးအကြား အခြေခံနိုင်ငံရေး နားလည်မှုကို အခြေခံ လျက် ငြိမ်းချမ်းရေး သဘောတူညီချက်များချုပ်ဆိုပြီး ဖွဲ့စည်းပုံအခြေခံဥပဒေ အစီအမံများ လုပ်ဆောင်ခြင်း ဖြစ်နိုင်သော်လည်း ယင်းတို့နှင့် နိုင်ငံရေးဖြေရှင်းချက်အကြား ဆက်စပ်ပုံမှာ များစွာ ကွဲပြားခြားနားနိုင်ပါသည်။..."
Creator/author: Christine Bell, Kimana Zulueta-Fülscher
Date of entry/update: 2019-05-26
Type: Individual Documents
Language: Burmese (မြန်မာဘာသာ)
Format : pdf
Size: 2.1 MB
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Title: Sequencing Peace Agreements and Constitutions in the Political Settlement Process
Source/publisher: International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA)
Date of publication: 2016-11-01
Description: "This Policy Paper focuses on sequencing peace agreements and constitutional arrangements within the broader political settlement processes in fragile and conflictaffected settings. Political settlements comprise the underlying agreed understandings about how power is to be held and exercised. It is often assumed that there is a specific sequence to reach a political settlement: typically, a ceasefire or peace agreement that includes (or is followed by) transitional political arrangements or an interim constitution that culminates in some form of long-term constitutional arrangement. According to this assumption, the political settlement is understood to develop as part of the peace and constitution-building process. In practice, matters are likely to be much more complicated. Peace agreements and constitutional arrangements often fail to reflect a broadly shared political settlement, and require further negotiations to resolve conflict and start building sustainable peace. Political settlements can be understood, on the one hand, as distinct from peace agreements and constitutional arrangements, but on the other hand as part of the same jigsaw puzzle, which may be arranged in different ways that often depart from the linear model. For instance, while both peace agreements and constitutional arrangements may reflect an underlying political understanding between the parties at the negotiating table, the connection between these documents and any shared political settlement can vary significantly. While peace agreements primarily aim to end a conflict, and are the result of negotiations between most (if not all) parties to the conflict, they can take different forms, including (a) ceasefires or other pre-negotiation agreements; (b) framework peace agreements that also address the core issues of the conflict; and (c) implementation agreements. Transitional political arrangements, interim constitutions and final constitutions will often be intermingled with ceasefire or peace agreements in complex sequences. Whether or not the process starts with a ceasefire/peace agreement, the parties often reach some form of transitional political arrangement that sets the stage for how power is to be held and exercised for a limited time. Transitional political arrangements only provide an attenuated legal framework, either working outside the former legal structures or within the arrangements of the pre-existing constitution. Interim constitutions can form an additional step towards a final constitution by providing a clearer constitutional structure with legal supremacy, sometimes enabling elections, and providing a roadmap for negotiating and drafting a final constitution. Since 1990, a total of 23 political settlement processes in fragile and conflict-affected settings have concluded in a ‘final’ constitution (see Chapter 3). Based on an analysis of these processes, this paper identifies four broad sequencing patterns..."
Creator/author: Christine Bell, Kimana Zulueta-Fülscher
Date of entry/update: 2019-05-26
Type: Individual Documents
Language: English
Format : pdf
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Title: Belt and Road forum marks subtle shift in China-Myanmar ties
Source/publisher: Frontier Myanmar
Date of publication: 2019-05-08
Description: "WHEN THE Chinese embassy in Yangon posted a Xinhua article about State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s meeting with Chinese Premier Mr Li Keqiang to Facebook on April 26, the solitary comment below the post was, “How about Myitsone dam?” It summed up the singular lens through which many in Myanmar have come to view bilateral relations over the past six months, and the growing concern that the Myanmar government, under pressure from China, might agree to proceed with the US$3.6 billion megadam in Kachin State, which was suspended in September 2011. These concerns reached a crescendo on April 20 when hundreds of civil society leaders gathered at Yangon’s Novotel Hotel and announced a “one dollar campaign” aimed at collecting $1 from every citizen to raise funds to compensate China for scrapping the Myitsone Dam. They also addressed an open letter to Chinese President Xi Jinping saying that a dam on the Ayeyarwady River was unacceptable to the people of Myanmar. This civil society event was held just four days before Aung San Suu Kyi left for the Belt and Road Forum in Beijing, from April 25-27. The forum brought together dozens of world leaders to discuss Xi’s signature – and controversial – foreign policy, the Belt and Road Initiative. But when Aung San Suu Kyi returned from Beijing, the tone had clearly shifted. Media coverage trumpeted the 1 billion yuan ($148 million) grant that China had promised for economic and technical assistance. A Ministry of Foreign Affairs statement released on April 29 said this would be for “livelihood improvement, feasibility study for major projects and humanitarian assistance for the IDPs in northern part of Myanmar”. Three memoranda of understanding were also signed, but they appeared to cover broad areas of cooperation rather than individual projects. Instead of Myitsone or the Kyaukphyu Special Economic Zone in Rakhine State, the state counsellor’s meeting with Xi focused on other issues of importance to the bilateral relationship, such as import quotas on rice, combating illegal border trade and human trafficking, supporting the peace process and defending Myanmar at the United Nations and other international fora. So, what happened? Ma Khin Khin Kyaw Kyee, a lead researcher at the Institute for Strategy and Policy-Myanmar in Yangon who focuses on Myanmar-China relations, said most observers had expected that detailed discussions would be held on specific projects, including Myitsone, in bilateral meetings on the sidelines of the Belt and Road Forum. In response to growing criticism of BRI, China wanted to use the forum as an opportunity to “show that BRI is mutually beneficial and to be implemented at the comfort level of the receiving countries”, she said. In the context of Myanmar, that meant avoiding any rhetoric on the need to proceed with Myitsone or other major infrastructure projects. Government spokesperson U Zaw Htay has said that Myitsone was not discussed in bilateral meetings. “I think many observers in Myanmar are relieved that the agreements they reached do not seem to be binding,” Khin Khin Kyaw Kyee told Frontier. “But it is important to note that the detailed project discussions will take place with individual ministries, which can be much more low profile. Thus, we also need to keep our eyes on to the negotiation of these individual projects as well.” Another close observer of China-Myanmar relations, U Maung Maung Soe, said the documents signed at the forum did not appear particularly significant..."
Creator/author: Thomas Kean
Date of entry/update: 2019-05-25
Type: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Title: The People's Voice: Fight for our Environmental Future
Source/publisher: Earthrise (Al Jazeera)
Date of publication: 2019-05-20
Sub-title: We learn about the social movements fighting for our environmental future before humanity reaches a point of no return.
Description: "As the adverse effects of the climate crisis intensify, many believe governments around the world are responding too slowly. It is now unlikely that the Paris Agreement target of keeping the rise in global temperatures below two degrees will be met unless there is immediate action taken to prevent further warming. This episode of earthrise visits those putting themselves on the line and pushing for urgent climate policy reform before humanity reaches a point of no return. Officially launched in April 2017, the Sunrise Movement was set up in the United States by six young people who were deeply concerned about their future and the effects of climate change. Now they have thousands of supporters, and this number is growing rapidly. "A number of us young people... were seeing that the hurricanes were getting bigger, the fire seasons were getting longer... but there wasn't a movement big enough for young people to ensure that we had a habitable planet for our younger generations," says Sunrise Movement cofounder Varshini Prakash on the birth of the organisation. With just under $1m raised, the Sunrise Movement has become one of the boldest voices in the national climate debate. earthrise heads to the US to see how this youth environmental movement is getting the attention of big government. earthrise then travels to the United Kingdom where a different group, formed in 2018, is seeking to make waves by shutting down streets in London. In April 2019, socio-political group Extinction Rebellion is engaging in a 2-week long protest against the British government. "Look," says Extinction Rebellion action coordinator Larch Maxey, "There's a climate crisis, there's an ecological crisis... we're here to stop this existential threat that we face. But we are non-violent. We're maintaining respect and putting ourselves on the line." By using civil disobedience that would prompt mass arrests, they hope to force the British government to change its approach to climate change and declare a state of emergency. earthrise is with Extinction Rebellion rebels as they prepare for the upcoming protest and are on the ground with them as it unfolds."
Date of entry/update: 2019-05-21
Type: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Title: Myanmar Water Portal - မြန်မာရေဘက်ဆိုင်ရာကဏ္ဍ အွန်လိုင်းစာမျက်နှာ
Source/publisher: Myanmar Water Portal
Date of publication: 2019-05-19
Description: "The Myanmar Water Portal is an independent non-government platform, providing you a one-stop gateway to all Myanmar water sector news, business, events, contacts and projects..."
Date of entry/update: 2019-05-19
Type: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: English
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Title: Building a Better Future for Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh
Source/publisher: International Crisis Group (ICG)
Date of publication: 2019-04-25
Description: "Eighteen months on from the mass expulsion of 740,000 Rohingya from Myanmar to Bangladesh, no sustainable solution for the refugees is in sight. Repatriation to Myanmar should remain the long-term goal – not only to relieve the huge burden on Bangladesh but also because that is the strong preference of the refugees themselves. But the unfortunate reality is that Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh will be unable to return home to Myanmar for the foreseeable future. Systems are now largely in place to provide for their essential humanitarian needs in the sprawling refugee camps. It is now time to move beyond the emergency phase of managing this crisis. Shifting focus in this way requires Bangladesh to ease its restrictions on longer-term assistance. Specifically: The Bangladesh government should lift its ban on the provision of formal education in the camps; local and international organisations are ready to provide such education. It should also improve law and order in the camps, where militants and gangs increasingly operate with impunity and are consolidating control to the detriment of non-violent political voices and leaders. This requires instituting a regular and effective Bangladeshi police presence in the camps and investigating crimes and bringing perpetrators to justice. For their part, donors should help Bangladesh not only to meet the refugees’ immediate humanitarian needs but also to cover the costs of measures that improve their lives and prospects for the future..."
Date of entry/update: 2019-05-18
Type: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Title: Summary for policymakers of the global assessment report on biodiversity and ecosystem services of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
Source/publisher: Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
Date of publication: 2019-05-06
Description: ADVANCE UNEDITED VERSION... "Nature embodies different concepts for different people, including biodiversity, ecosystems, Mother Earth, systems of life and other analogous concepts. Nature’s contributions to people embody different concepts such as ecosystem goods and services, and nature’s gifts. Both nature and nature’s contributions to people are vital for human existence and good quality of life (human well-being, living in harmony with nature, living well in balance and harmony with Mother Earth, and other analogous concepts).While more food, energy and materials than ever before are now being supplied to people in most places, this is increasingly at the expense of nature’s ability to provide such contributions in the future and frequently undermines nature’s many other contributions, which range from water quality regulation to sense of place. The biosphere, upon which humanity as a whole depends, is being altered to an unparalleled degree across all spatial scales. Biodiversity –the diversity within species..."
Creator/author: Multiple
Date of entry/update: 2019-05-08
Type: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Title: Myanmar: Objections to Myitsone Dam project - (video)
Source/publisher: Channel News Asia (CNA)
Date of publication: 2013-08-29
Description: "The controversial Myitsone Dam project in Myanmar's Kachin state has been suspended for over two years now and stop-work costs, amounting to millions of US dollars, are mounting. But no resolution seems to be in sight for this China-contracted project. The company, China Power Investment, may be facing losses, but local Myanmar citizens want the government to scrap the development entirely. In this exclusive report, Channel NewsAsia's May Wong, had the rare opportunity to visit the project site and speak with those involved..."
Date of entry/update: 2019-05-07
Type: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Title: What to read ahead of Beijing’s Belt and Road Forum
Source/publisher: Myanmar Times
Date of publication: 2019-04-21
Description: "The BRI is colossal infrastructure and connectivity initiative of the Chinese government, loosely based on two main routes: the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road. In Chinese language the initiative is called “yidai yiliu”, translated as “one belt one road”. The English name has switched from the previous One Belt One Road or OBOR to the now widely accepted BRI. The name is not the only moving piece. The BRI is fluid – a constantly evolving concept that has changed considerably since its first announcement in 2013. While large investment projects characterised the initial phase, it now focuses on high-quality development, mirroring China"s growth path from "high-speed" to "high-quality". The very nature of BRI has also evolved as well. It started as a China-driven plan to connect the Eurasian region, but the Chinese government now aims to make this a "platform", open for all countries to take part, and for all interested investors to collaborate. One challenge that many non-Chinese observers, especially in Europe and in the US, struggle with is the "vagueness" of the BRI concept. The BRI brand is broad enough to encompass many projects and ideas. While this makes the BRI flexible to evolve, it also makes it difficult to pinpoint its exact scope. What makes an infrastructure project a BRI project? And does it matter to be able to define it? To avoid potential misuse of the term, the Chinese government is moving toward developing a BRI project database..."
Date of entry/update: 2019-05-07
Type: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Title: Buckling up for the Belt and Road
Source/publisher: Frontier Myanmar
Date of publication: 2019-04-24
Description: "For Myanmar, the stakes couldn’t be higher. This will be one of the most important weeks for the National League for Democracy since it took office in March 2016. The decisions that it makes will have implications for the economy, domestic politics and international relations for years to come. The Belt and Road Forum is primarily about improving the image of the Belt and Road Initiative. Asked about criticism of the BRI at a press conference on April 19, Chinese Foreign Minister Mr Wang Yi said the strong attendance list was a “vote of confidence” in the BRI. The Chinese government under President Xi Jinping wants to be able to show the world that the BRI is moving forward. Accordingly, Myanmar has in recent months come under intense pressure from China to give the green light to a range of BRI-related projects, including the stalled Myitsone Dam in Kachin State. State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi will travel to Beijing for the forum, where she is also expected to hold bilateral meetings with Chinese leaders. It is likely that the two sides will announce agreements on several projects. The agreements may not necessarily cover the finer details, but they will be taken as a crucial signal of Myanmar’s willingness to move forward with these projects. In Myanmar, all eyes will be on whether there is an announcement regarding Myitsone. Suspended in September 2011, the project epitomises the unhappy legacy of bilateral economic cooperation under Myanmar’s military junta, when deals were cut in secret with the generals and the wishes of the people of Myanmar were ignored. Myanmar is increasingly dependent on China for political protection as a result of the Tatmadaw’s actions in Rakhine State, and also for its ability to influence the peace process. This would appear to give China the upper hand in any negotiations. But it would be a mistake for China to railroad the Myanmar government into resuming the Myitsone project. Yes, there are signed agreements that need to be taken into consideration. But the success of the BRI in Myanmar will depend on China’s ability to tailor its approach to fit the Myanmar context, where there remains widespread mistrust of Chinese actors and their intentions..."
Date of entry/update: 2019-05-07
Type: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Title: Saving Myanmar's Biodiversity - FFI Summer Reception June 2015 - (video, 4:42 mins)
Source/publisher: Fauna & Flora International Events
Date of publication: 2015-06-29
Description: "Frank Momberg, FFI’s Myanmar Country Programme Director lived in Indonesia for almost 20 years and moved to Myanmar about four years ago. He has been with FFI for almost 14 years, living and working in most of the Asia-Pacific programme countries.Frank details how FFI’s programme is developing a conservation infrastructure at both grass roots, regional and national levels in Myanmar, with the aim of establishing a protected area network that spans mountain forests, wetlands, coastal mangrove forests and coral reefs..."
Date of entry/update: 2019-05-01
Type: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Title: TODAY MYANMAR - Biodiversity Conservation in Ayeyarwaddy River Valley - (video, 15:33 Mins)
Source/publisher: mitv
Date of publication: 2018-03-15
Description: "TODAY MYANMAR - Biodiversity Conservation in Ayeyarwaddy River Valley..."
Creator/author: Nanda Han, Swam Lin Maung, May Nwe Aeint, Zaw Min Aung
Date of entry/update: 2019-05-01
Type: Individual Documents
Language: English, Burmese (မြန်မာဘာသာ)
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Title: The State of the World’s Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture
Source/publisher: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Date of publication: 2019-05-01
Description: "Our food and agricultural systems depend in countless ways on the plants, animals and micro-organisms that comprise and surround them. Biodiversity, at every level from genetic, through species to ecosystem, underpins the capacity of farmers, livestock keepers, forest dwellers, fishers and fish farmers to produce food and a range of other goods and services in a vast variety of different biophysical and socio-economic environments. It increases resilience to shocks and stresses, provides opportunities to adapt production systems to emerging challenges and is a key resource in efforts to increase output in a sustainable way. It is vital to efforts to meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda. Over the last two decades, FAO has prepared country-driven global assessments of the genetic resources of crop plants, livestock and forest trees. An assessment covering aquatic genetic resources will shortly be published. What has been missing to date has been an assessment of how biodiversity as a whole contributes to food and agriculture, including “associated biodiversity”, the myriad components of biodiversity that support food and agricultural production by providing services such as pollination, pest control, soil formation and maintenance, carbon sequestration, purification and regulation of water supplies, reduction of disasters threats, and the provision of habitat for other beneficial species. The urgency of closing knowledge gaps in this field is underlined by the mounting evidence that the world’s biodiversity is under severe threat and by the ever-growing challenges facing food and agriculture, including particularly those related to the impacts of climate change. The publication of The State of the World’s Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture is therefore a significant and timely milestone. Like all the global assessments prepared under the auspices of FAO’s Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, a key characteristic of this report is its country-driven nature. Ninety-one countries prepared and submitted reports on the state of their biodiversity for food and agriculture and its management, focusing particularly on associated biodiversity and its role in the supply of supporting and regulating ecosystem services and on wild species that are sources of food. The reporting process provided an opportunity for countries to identify needs and priorities in terms of promoting the sustainable use and conservation of these resources, both at national level and internationally. Parts of the global report make sombre reading. It is deeply concerning that in so many production systems in so many countries biodiversity for food and agriculture and the ecosystem services it provides are reported to be in decline. The foundations of our food systems are being undermined, often, at least in part, because of the impact of management practices and land-use changes associated with food and agriculture. It is also abundantly clear that the state of knowledge of many components of biodiversity, including in particular invertebrates and micro-organisms, is very inadequate and that this contributes to their neglect. The good news is that many management practices and approaches that rely on the maintenance of abundant and diverse biological communities, or that can otherwise be considered biodiversity friendly, are attracting growing interest and in many cases are becoming more widely adopted. The importance of biodiversity and its roles in the food and agriculture sector is increasingly being acknowledged in international policy agendas. This recognition needs to be translated into action. Key tasks include addressing the drivers of biodiversity loss within the food and agriculture sector and beyond, strengthening in situ and ex situ conservation measures, and increasing the uptake of management practices that promote the contributions of biodiversity to sustainable production. Coordinated and collaborative action on the part of the international community is essential. This report will make a valuable contribution to these efforts and to raising awareness of the vital importance of biodiversity to food and agriculture...."
Creator/author: José Graziano da Silva
Date of entry/update: 2019-05-01
Type: Individual Documents
Language: English
Format : pdf
Size: 12.82 MB
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Title: Google search for Climate Smart Agriculture Myanmar
Source/publisher: Google
Date of publication: 2019-04-27
Description: About 2,060,000 results (2019-04-27)
Date of entry/update: 2019-04-27
Type: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Title: The Standoff Over the Myitsone Dam Project in Myanmar: Advantage China
Source/publisher: The Jamestown Foundation
Date of publication: 2019-04-24
Description: "On January 12th, the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in Myanmar issued a statement warning Myanmar that if it failed to resolve the dispute over the stalled Myitsone Hydropower Dam project in Myanmar’s northern state of Kachin, “confidence of Chinese entrepreneurs in investing in Myanmar” would be “seriously hurt” (Global Times, February 21). A fortnight prior to this statement, the PRC Ambassador to Myanmar, Hong Liang, visited the Kachin capital of Myitkyina, where he met local Kachin groups and religious leaders to win their support for revival of the controversial Chinese-backed dam project. Hong reportedly warned them against opposing Chinese projects, including the Myitsone project, in the Kachin state (The Irrawaddy, January 9). PRC officials have reportedly been visiting the homes of Kachin villagers to canvass support for the project (The Irrawaddy, September 13, 2018). The $3.6 billion Myitsone dam project is a Sino-Myanmar joint venture: Myanmar’s Ministry of Electric Power and a domestic conglomerate, Asia World, as well as the PRC’s state-run China Power Investment Corporation, signed a memorandum of understanding in 2006; work on the project began subsequently in December 2009. In September 2011, amid protests over the Myitsone Dam’s social and environmental costs, Myanmar’s then-President Thein Sein announced the suspension of the project, citing the “will of the people” (Mizzima, September 30, 2011). Since coming to power in January 2016, Myanmar’s ruling National League for Democracy (NLD) has avoided making a decision on the project’s future. But with State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi due to meet Chinese leaders on the sidelines of the upcoming Belt and Road Forum in Beijing, where the Myitsone project is bound to come up for discussion, the NLD government will need to decide the fate of the project before Suu Kyi leaves for Beijing (The Irrawaddy, April 5). This will not be an easy decision, as the government is caught between mounting pressure from the PRC and calls from the people of Myanmar to cancel the project..."
Creator/author: Sudha Ramachandran
Date of entry/update: 2019-04-25
Type: Individual Documents
Language: English
Format : pdf
Size: 1.59 MB
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Title: Myanmar’s Myitsone Dam Dilemma
Source/publisher: The Diplomat
Date of publication: 2019-03-11
Description: ''China’s increasing pressure over the suspended Myitsone dam in ethnic Kachin state has highlighted Myanmar’s dilemma in choosing between environmental protection and safeguarding the great Irrawaddy River, and its political and economic dependence on Beijing. The $3.6 billion dam, ranked as one of the biggest hydropower projects in the region, was suspended by former President Thein Sein in 2011, causing shock and consternation to Beijing’s State Power Investment Corporation (SPIC), the main investor in the controversial dam. It is a relatively rare event for a massive Chinese overseas dam project to be blocked by a popular protest. The world’s number one dam builder, China, by one count, has a portfolio of 334 hydropower projects in 74 countries, and only a few have been suspended or cancelled as a result of public opposition. In Myanmar, the protests united all ethnic groups living along the river and nationwide...''
Creator/author: Tom Fawthrop
Date of entry/update: 2019-04-19
Type: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Title: Suu Kyi, China and the controversial Myitsone dam
Source/publisher: Asia Times
Date of publication: 2019-02-07
Description: ''A mid increased pressure from China to resume construction of the controversial Myitsone hydropower dam in the far north of Myanmar, State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi has said the public should think about the project “from a wider perspective,” Myanmar website The Irrawaddy reported on March 14. The project, a joint venture with Chinese interests, was suspended in 2011 by then president Thein Sein amid widespread concern over the dam’s social and environmental impacts. Anti-Chinese demonstrations were also held in many towns in Myanmar. Suu Kyi did not say whether the project should be scrapped or continued and the uncertainty has led to renewed protests...''
Creator/author: Bertil Lintner
Date of entry/update: 2019-04-18
Type: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Title: How will China's New Silk Road shape Myanmar's economy? | Full episode - (video)
Source/publisher: CNA
Date of publication: 2018-09-25
Description: ''The New Silk Road is China's grand trillion-dollar strategy to link up 65 countries and 4.4 billion people. In this episode, we look at a massive Chinese petrochemical hub which has been built in Kyaukphyu, Myanmar, close to where the Rohingya crisis is still unfolding. How will this project shape Myanmar's economy?...''
Creator/author: Pearl Forss
Date of entry/update: 2019-04-15
Type: Individual Documents
Language: English, (Burmese with English Sub-title)
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Title: Asia's Meth Boom | 101 East - (video)
Source/publisher: Al Jazeera
Date of publication: 2019-04-11
Description: ''Methamphetamines are flooding into countries across Asia. But where do the drugs come from, and who is profiting from feeding the world’s addiction? 101 East travels to the notorious “Golden Triangle” to investigate what’s driving Asia’s meth boom and why authorities are powerless to stop it. With rare access to the borderlands of Myanmar, the world’s largest meth producer, 101 East meets leaders of rebel armies who are often blamed for the country’s drug production and explores whether the nation’s military could be involved. On the front line of the drug war, 101 East joins a patrol with the Thai military as they try to stop the massive flow of methamphetamines coming across the border from Myanmar. In a recent bust, Thai authorities seized 300 kilograms of crystal meth. If it had reached Australia, the drugs, known as ‘ice’, would have been worth $180 million. But despite record-breaking amounts of meth being seized across the region, authorities estimate they are only catching about 20 per cent of it. The rest can end up anywhere from construction sites in Thailand, where laborers use the drug to help them work long hours, to wealthier countries like Australia, where young people take the drug to party...''
Creator/author: Pailin Wedel
Date of entry/update: 2019-04-13
Type: Individual Documents
Language: English, Thailand
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Title: Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law No. 12/2019: Law Amending the Myanmar Engineering Council Law - မြန်မာနိုင်ငံအင်ဂျင်နီယာကောင်စီဥပဒေကို ပြင်ဆင်သည့်ဥပဒေ
Source/publisher: Pyidaungsu Hluttaw
Date of publication: 2019-03-25
Description: Unofficial English Title
Date of entry/update: 2019-03-29
Type: Individual Documents
Language: Burmese (မြန်မာဘာသာ)
Format : pdf
Size: 188.86 KB
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Title: Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law No. 11/2019: The Boundary Demarcation Act - နယ်နိမိတ်တိုင်းတာပိုင်းခြား သတ်မှတ်ရေးဥပဒေ
Source/publisher: Pyidaungsu Hluttaw
Date of publication: 2019-03-25
Date of entry/update: 2019-03-29
Type: Individual Documents
Language: Burmese (မြန်မာဘာသာ)
Format : pdf
Size: 158 KB
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Title: Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law No. 10/2019: The Penal Code (Amendment) Act - ရာဇသတ်ကြီးကို ပြင်ဆင်သည့်ဥပဒေ
Source/publisher: Pyidaungsu Hluttaw
Date of publication: 2019-03-25
Description: Unofficial English Title
Date of entry/update: 2019-03-29
Type: Individual Documents
Language: Burmese (မြန်မာဘာသာ)
Format : pdf
Size: 133.17 KB
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Title: Video from PEDU Karen Education - ဖလံုပညာ ဗီဒီယို
Source/publisher: PEDU
Date of publication: 2019-03-29
Description: "Video from PEDU Karen Education - The Village News..."
Creator/author: PEDU
Date of entry/update: 2019-03-29
Type: Individual Documents
Language: Pwo-Karen
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Title: PEDU ဖလုံပညာ programme - ပ်ုတ်ုဝါန့်ဆ်ုပြိုင့်
Source/publisher: PEDU
Date of publication: 2019-03-29
Description: "PEDU facebook page" This page is announce the village news around Karen state in western Poe Karen and teaching western Poe Karen literate in summer course ..."
Creator/author: PEDU
Date of entry/update: 2019-03-29
Type: Individual Documents
Language: Pwo-Karen
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Title: Interactive dialogue with: - Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar (Contd.)
Source/publisher: United Nations (A/HRC/40/68)
Date of publication: 2019-03-11
Sub-title: SR on Human Rights in Myanmar - 27th Meeting, 40th Regular Session Human Rights Council
Description: Participants: Switzerland, Mr. Valentin Zellweger...Iceland, Mr. Harald Aspelund...Norway, Ms. Herborg Fiskaa Alvsåker...Sweden, Mr. Mikael Anzen...New Zealand, Ms. Jillian Dempster...Ireland, Mr. Michael Gaffey...Luxembourg, Mr. Pierre-Louis Lorenz...Iran (Islamic Republic of), Mr. Mohsen Ghanei...Bangladesh, Mr. Shameem Ahsan...China, Ms. Xie Zhangwei...Greece, Mr. Michail Manousakis...Philippines, Ms. Majella Cristy U. Pua-Diezmos...Turkey, Mr. Sadik Arslan...Japan, Mr. Ken Okaniwa...Slovakia, Mr. Igor Kucer...Lao People's Democratic Republic, Mr. Kham-Inh Khitchadeth...OIC, Ms. Ilham Ibrahim Ahmed...Thailand, Mr. Sek Wannamethee....Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development, Ms. Khin Ohmar...Lawyers' Rights Watch Canada (Joint Statement), Ms. Salma El Hosseiny 00:38:59Human Rights Now, Mr. Giacomo Corbo...Christian Solidarity Worldwide, Mr. Ellis Heasley...European Centre for Law and Justice, Mr. Christophe Foltzenlogel...International Educational Development, Inc, Ms. Karen Parker...International Federation for Human Rights Leagues, Mr. Mohibullah...Refugee Council of Australia, Mr. Maung Tun Khin Ms. Yanghee Lee, Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Situation in Myanmar (Final Remarks)
Creator/author: Yanghee Lee et.al.
Date of entry/update: 2019-03-23
Type: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: English
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Title: Interactive dialogue with: - Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar
Source/publisher: United Nations (A/HRC/40/68)
Date of publication: 2019-03-11
Sub-title: ID: SR on Human Rights in Myanmar - 26th Meeting, 40th Regular Session Human Rights Council
Description: Participants: Ms. Yanghee Lee, Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Situation in Myanmar (Introduction) ...Myanmar (Concerned Country), Mr. Kyaw Moe Tun ...Thailand (on behalf of ASEAN), Mr. Sek Wannamethee...European Union, Mr. Carl Hallergard...Spain, Mr. Pablo Nuño Garcia...Afghanistan, Mr. Mirwais Qaderi ...Estonia, Ms. Triinu Kallas...Denmark, Mr. Morten Jespersen...Liechtenstein, Mr. Daniel Batliner...Lithuania, Mr. Andrius Krivas...India, Mr. Rajiv Kumar Chander...United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Mr. Julian Braithwaite...Belgium, Ms. Marleen Steenbrugghe...Canada, Mr. Bob Rae ...Germany, Mr. Hans-Peter Jugel...Croatia, Ms. Vesna Batistic Kos...Iraq, Mr. Ali Mousa...Czech Republic, Mr. Ludvík Eger...Somalia, Mr. Sala Moallim Abubakar...Finland, Ms. Sari Lehtiranta...Viet Nam, Ms. Le Duc Hanh...Australia, Ms. Sally Mansfield...Russian Federation, Mr. Stepan Kuzmenkov...Saudi Arabia, Mr. Fahad Obaydullah Almutairi...Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of), Mr. Emilio Segundo Barroeta Guillén...Netherlands, Mr. Rochus Pronk...Republic of Korea, Mr. Chung Byung-Ha...France, Ms. Clarisse Gerardin...Ms. Yanghee Lee, Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Situation in Myanmar (Comments and Answers)...Costa Rica, Ms. Diana Murillo Solis...Maldives, Ms. Hawla Ahmed Didi...Belarus, Mr. Vadim Pisarevich...Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Mr. Mun Jong L
Creator/author: Yanghee Lee et.al.
Date of entry/update: 2019-03-23
Type: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: English
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Title: GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT OUTLOOK 2019 - GEO-6
Source/publisher: United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment)
Date of publication: 2019-03-01
Sub-title: HEALTHY PLANET, HEALTHY PEOPLE
Description: CHAPTER 1: Introduction and Context...GEO-6 healthy planet, healthy people - humanity's transformative challenge... UNEP's flagship assessment to deliver the environmental dimension of the 2030 agenda...GEO-6 in a changing global context. Environmental governance..The environmental dimension of the sustainable development goals, global environmental governance and multilateral environmental agreements.. GEO-6 in the context of other environmental assessments...GEO-6 approach, theory of change and structure.....CHAPTER 2: Drivers of Environmental Change.. ...Introduction and context...Changes since the last assessment...Population...Urbanization...Economic development...Technology, innovation, and global sustainability...limate change...Unravelling drivers and their interactions... References...... CHAPTER 3: The Current State of our Data and Knowledge...The demand for environmental statistics and data...History of environmental statistics...Better data for a healthy planet with healthy people...Gender and social-environment intersectionality...Equity and human-environment interactions...Existing data systems...CHAPTER 4: Cross-cutting Issues.. People and livelihoods.. Changing environments...Resources and materials...STATE OF THE GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT..... CHAPTER 5: Air .... Pressures: emissions...State: atmospheric composition and climate..Impacts...Response: policies and governance... CHAPTER 6: Biodiversity..... Global state and trends of biodiversity... Impacts on the world's biomes.... CHAPTER 7: Oceans and Coasts.... CHAPTER 8: Land and Soil... Land resources and the sustainable development goals... CHAPTER 9: Freshwater.. Pressures on freshwater.....Water and land use..Global state and trends of freshwater Water quality... Freshwater ecosystems... Water infrastructure... Impacts ...Policy responses.... PART B: POLICIES, GOALS, OBJECTIVES AND ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE: AN ASSESSMENT OF THEIR EFFECTIVENESS.... CHAPTER 10: Approach to Assessment of Policy Effectiveness 10.2 Environmental policy and governance...Policy instruments...Policy mixes and coherence...Methodology adopted to assess policy effectiveness...Top-down evaluation methodology... Bottom-up evaluation methodology... CHAPTER 11: Policy Theory and Practice..... Policy design .... Policy integration Effectiveness of international and multilevel governance ..... CHAPTER 12: Air Policy....Key policies and governance approaches........ CHAPTER 13: Biodiversity Policy.... 13.2 Key policies and governance approaches ......Indicators: Biodiversity policy..... CHAPTER 14: Oceans and Coastal Policy....Key policies and governance approaches ....CHAPTER 15: Land and Soil Policy.... 15.2 Key policies and governance approaches .......indicators CHAPTER 16: Freshwater Policy...ey policies and governance approaches...Indicators (link to SDGs and MEAs). CHAPTER 17: Systemic Policy Approaches for Cross-cutting Issues... Cross-cutting policy issues and systemic change... Key actors, policies and governance approaches................................................... 17.3 Adapting socioeconomic systems to be more resilient to climate change... Creating a sustainable agrifood system... Decarbonizing energy systems.... Towards a more circular economy... CHAPTER 18: Conclusions on Policy Effectiveness Overview of the outcomes .....Connections to future policy .... Gaps in knowledge.....Key lessons from the analysis ........ PART C: OUTLOOKS AND PATHWAYS TO A HEALTHY PLANET WITH HEALTHY PEOPLE CHAPTER 19: Outlooks in GEO-6.... Important elements of future-oriented environmental outlooks... A new framework for combining top-down and bottom-up analysis methods The role of scale....Roadmap for Part C of GEO-6.... CHAPTER 20: A Long-Term Vision for 2050 ... 20.2 The environmental dimension of the SDGs................ 20.3 An integrated view on the SDGs... 20.4 A long-term vision: selected targets and indicators. CHAPTER 21: Future Developments Without Targeted Policies Global environmental scenarios.... The achievement of SDGs and related MEAs in trend scenarios... Are we achieving the targets?...... CHAPTER 22: Pathways Toward Sustainable Development Pathways definition.... Pathways towards achieving the targets... An integrated approach..... CHAPTER 23: Bottom-up Initiatives and Participatory Approaches for Outlooks... 23.2 Integrating global assessments and bottom-up analyses.....Sub-global assessments in a multilevel context...Bottom-up futures based on existing local practices... Methodological rationale and approach.....Investigating the broad landscape of bottom-up initiatives ...GEO-6 participatory initiatives... GEO-6 Regional Assessments... Findings from a bottom-up approach... GEO Regional Assessment synthesis ...... Regional outlook interventions and bottom-up initiatives....Enabling conditions for transformations .... Key messages. Key interventions and a critical need to recognize distributive justice given global inequities and inequality...CHAPTER 24: The Way Forward.....Approaches for environmental policy: strategic and transformative... Transformative change....Building blocks for transformation . Healthy planet, healthy people: challenge and opportunity... Emerging tools for environmental assessment ..... Environmental monitoring for the future....Conclusion: challenges, gaps and opportunities... Mission of the sixth Global Environment Outlook...... Range of integrated environmental assessments which the sixth Global Environment Outlook draws from .. Theory of Change for the sixth Global Environment Outlook (GEO-6)....... Structure and rationale for confidence statements used in the sixth Global Environment Outlook..... Towards monitoring the environmental dimension of the SDGs...... The principal biodiversity-related Conventions... Water contaminants and occurrences..... Biodiversity conservation and International Environmental Agreements (IEAs).... Overview of key policy developments and governance responses at a global level... Bottom-up Initiative platforms and results....
Date of entry/update: 2019-03-20
Type: Individual Documents
Language: English
Format : pdf
Size: 17.89 MB
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Title: Burma 2018 Human Rights Report
Source/publisher: [US] Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor
Date of publication: 2019-03-14
Description: ''Burma has a quasi-parliamentary system of government in which the national parliament selects the president and constitutional provisions grant one-quarter of parliamentary seats to active-duty military appointees. The military also has the authority to appoint the ministers of defense, home affairs, and border affairs and one of two vice presidents, as well as to assume power over all branches of the government should the president declare a national state of emergency. In 2015 the country held nationwide parliamentary elections that the public widely accepted as a credible reflection of the will of the people. The National League for Democracy (NLD) party leader Aung San Suu Kyi was the civilian government’s de facto leader and, due to constitutional provisions preventing her from becoming president, remained in the position of state counsellor. During the year parliament selected NLD member Win Myint to replace Htin Kyaw as president, and the country held peaceful and orderly by-elections for 13 state and national offices. Under the constitution, civilian authorities have no authority over the security forces; the armed forces commander in chief, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, maintained effective control over the security forces. Independent investigations undertaken during the year found evidence that corroborated the 2017 ethnic cleansing of Rohingya in Rakhine State and further detailed the military’s killing, rape, and torture of unarmed villagers during a campaign of violence that displaced more than 700,000 Rohingya to neighboring Bangladesh. Some evidence suggested preparatory actions on the part of security forces and other actors prior to the start of violence, including confiscation of knives, tools, iron, and other sharp objects that could be used as weapons in the days preceding attacks by the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA). An additional 13,764 Rohingya fled to Bangladesh between January and September. The government prevented assistance from reaching displaced Rohingya and other vulnerable populations during the year by using access restrictions on the United Nations and other humanitarian agencies. The military also committed human rights abuses in continuing conflicts in Kachin and Shan States...'
Date of entry/update: 2019-03-14
Type: Individual Documents
Language: English
Format : pdf
Size: 330.9 KB
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Title: ‘There is no vacant land’
Source/publisher: Transnational Institute (TNI)
Date of publication: 2019-03-06
Description: ''Across the world, the livelihoods and well-being of rural communities have, since time immemorial, been assured through their customary land and resource management systems. Myanmar is no exception, and these systems have been especially valued in ethnic upland areas. Although increasingly under pressure, these systems still widely continue more or less intact, and continue to retain social legitimacy. Customary tenure systems involve rural communities asserting authority over their local land and resources within their village areas, allocating rights and regulating access and use according to traditional cultural norms. At the simplest these institutions are codified social norms around resource access, and as such have existed across just about every inhabited landscape in the world. They often involve the coordination of farming activities like planting, harvesting and grazing. They are based on a strong local identification with place and ecological landscape, and have evolved dynamically over the long term, giving rise to unique cultural landscapes. They tend to be sophisticated, flexible, and practical in terms of combining common and private rights and responsibilities across diverse resources. Beyond individual villages, they can play a key role in agreeing to inter-village boundaries, and regulating across clusters of villages who gets access to what resources, when and how. They can manage disputes both within and between villages in ways which have cultural legitimacy and embody principles of social justice. Their effectiveness is reflected in how highly valued they are by the communities who rely on them, and they evolve as the social composition and economic needs of the communities evolve and change over time...''
Creator/author: Oliver Springate-Baginski
Date of entry/update: 2019-03-10
Type: Individual Documents
Language: English
Format : pdf
Size: 482.68 KB
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Title: UN Human Rights Council, 40th Session: Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar (Advance unedited version)
Source/publisher: United Nations (A/HRC/40/68)
Date of publication: 2019-03-05
Description: Summary: ''The present report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar is submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 37/32. The report builds on previous Special Rapporteur reports to identify progress and challenges in human rights issues, and makes recommendations for the furtherance of human rights of all people in Myanmar...'' Conclusion: ''The international community must keep apprised of the situation in Myanmar, keeping it at the top of its agenda. It is only through the international community’s actions that justice can be brought about in Myanmar. The people of Myanmar have endured decades of abuse; international inaction, or delayed action, is a further injustice. Concrete action to advance human rights, accountability and the democratic transition in Myanmar must be taken by the international community immediately. The member states of the United Nations and its agencies must stand together with one united approach in relation to Myanmar. This applies to the Rohingya situation, including their repatriation to Myanmar and their overall circumstances in Rakhine, as well as the situation of people in conflict-affected areas throughout Myanmar who must be involved in decisions about their future...'' Recommendations: "The Special Rapporteur reiterates all of her previous recommendations addressed to the Government of Myanmar that have not yet been implemented. The Special Rapporteur recommends that the Government of Myanmar: (a) In relation to resource extraction and infrastructure development: (b) In relation to land rights: (c) In relation to economic, social and cultural rights: (d) Together with EAOs, in relation to armed conflict and violence, and the peace process: (e) In relation to refugees and IDPs: (f) In relation to the democratic space and rule of law: (g) Open an Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights country office with a fully-fledged mandate...''
Creator/author: Yanghee Lee
Date of entry/update: 2019-03-10
Type: Individual Documents
Language: English
Format : pdf
Size: 1.35 MB
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Title: THE JATAKA OR STORIES OF THE BUDDHA’S FORMER BIRTHS (Vol III)
Source/publisher: Pali Canon and elsewhere in the Buddhist texts
Date of publication: 1970-01-01
Description: "The Jātaka tales are a voluminous body of literature native to India concerning the previous births of Gautama Buddha in both human and animal form. The future Buddha may appear as a king, an outcast, a god, an elephant—but, in whatever form, he exhibits some virtue that the tale thereby inculcates.[1] Often, Jātaka tales include an extensive cast of characters who interact and get into various kinds of trouble - whereupon the Buddha character intervenes to resolve all the problems and bring about a happy ending. In Theravada Buddhism, the Jātakas are a textual division of the Pāli Canon, included in the Khuddaka Nikaya of the Sutta Pitaka. The term Jātaka may also refer to a traditional commentary on this book". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jataka_tales
Creator/author: E. B. Cowell (ed)
Date of entry/update: 2019-03-09
Type: Individual Documents
Language: English
Format : pdf pdf
Size: 8.43 MB 19.66 MB
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Title: THE JATAKA OR STORIES OF THE BUDDHA’S FORMER BIRTHS (Vol II)
Source/publisher: Pali Canon and elsewhere in the Buddhist canon
Date of publication: 1970-01-01
Description: "The Jātaka tales are a voluminous body of literature native to India concerning the previous births of Gautama Buddha in both human and animal form. The future Buddha may appear as a king, an outcast, a god, an elephant—but, in whatever form, he exhibits some virtue that the tale thereby inculcates.[1] Often, Jātaka tales include an extensive cast of characters who interact and get into various kinds of trouble - whereupon the Buddha character intervenes to resolve all the problems and bring about a happy ending. In Theravada Buddhism, the Jātakas are a textual division of the Pāli Canon, included in the Khuddaka Nikaya of the Sutta Pitaka. The term Jātaka may also refer to a traditional commentary on this book" From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jataka_tales
Creator/author: E. B. Cowell (ed)
Date of entry/update: 2019-03-09
Type: Individual Documents
Language: English
Format : pdf pdf
Size: 8.04 MB 20.76 MB
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Title: THE JATAKA OR STORIES OF THE BUDDHA’S FORMER BIRTHS (Vol I)
Source/publisher: Pāli Canon and elsewhere
Date of publication: 1970-01-01
Description: "The Jātaka tales are a voluminous body of literature native to India concerning the previous births of Gautama Buddha in both human and animal form. The future Buddha may appear as a king, an outcast, a god, an elephant—but, in whatever form, he exhibits some virtue that the tale thereby inculcates Often, Jātaka tales include an extensive cast of characters who interact and get into various kinds of trouble - whereupon the Buddha character intervenes to resolve all the problems and bring about a happy ending. In Theravada Buddhism, the Jātakas are a textual division of the Pāli Canon, included in the Khuddaka Nikaya of the Sutta Pitaka. The term Jātaka may also refer to a traditional commentary on this book." - Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jataka_tales
Creator/author: E. B. Cowell - Ed
Date of entry/update: 2019-03-09
Type: Individual Documents
Language: English
Format : pdf pdf
Size: 9.41 MB 23.05 MB
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Title: Test
Date of publication: 2019-03-07
Date of entry/update: 2019-03-06
Type: Individual Documents
Format : HTML
Font: Zawgyi
Size: 300MB
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Title: Climate Change: Impact In Myanmar (video)
Source/publisher: mitv - Myanmar International
Date of publication: 2014-05-05
Description: ''mitv - Climate Change: Impact In Myanmar..''
Creator/author: Prof. Khin Maung Cho, Aye Lwin
Date of entry/update: 2019-02-24
Type: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Title: State of Corruption
Source/publisher: Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA)
Date of publication: 2019-01-31
Sub-title: The top-level conspiracy behind the global trade in Myanmar’s stolen teak
Description: "The forests of Myanmar are defined by their monetary value and have been part of the military and economic elites’ profits and, in some cases, survival for decades. The entire legal state forestry and timber trade sectors are riddled with corruption. Current laws seem to seek the criminalisation of local people and the Government is undermining the communities’ reliance on resources while at the same time introducing a centralised system of management they are unable to implement. Myanmar’s government presents the teak trade as being wholly legal and sustainable, produced in compliance with the rule of law. This is simply not the case. A two-year undercover investigation by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) into a near-mythic ‘Burmese teak kingpin’ who conspired with and bribed the most senior military and government officials in Myanmar has revealed how he was able to establish a system of fraudulent trade. This was run in parallel to, and within, the official legal trade administered by the Myanmar Timber Enterprise (MTE) – a state-owned company with a monopoly on all logging and timber trade in the country. Diverse and extensive, Myanmar’s forests form part of the ‘Indo-Burma Hotspot’, one of the world’s most important biodiversity areas, featuring a huge range of endemic flora and fauna. More than 200 globally threatened species live in Myanmar’s forests, including elephants, tigers, sun bears and the Myanmar snub-nosed monkey. These forests are an important source of food and fuel for Myanmar’s people, 70 per cent of whom live in rural areas where forests underpin basic livelihoods. Teak’s combination of properties – a range of beautiful golden-to-red hues on tight, straight grains, Category 1 durability classification, termite, water and insect resistance and its excellent machinability and weathering properties – have earned it the moniker of ‘King of Woods’. In recent decades Myanmar has suffered a deforestation crisis. Timber extraction is considered the main driver of forest degradation inside the country’s forest reserve areas. Overharvesting has been “long term and systematic, persisting until forests are exhausted”. Nominally legal forestry operations by MTE and its subcontractors – which prioritised revenue generation – have not allowed forests to recover between cycles of harvesting. Illegal logging is also a major contributor to forest loss in Myanmar, with EIA investigations in 2014/15 revealing how Myanmar’s military and ethnic armed organisations both profit from the massive illegal timber trade. Demand for Myanmar teak in Western markets is largely driven by the furniture and boat-building sectors, particularly the yacht and superyacht decking market which seek the highest grades of Myanmar teak. The biggest direct markets for Myanmar teak are China, India and Thailand, which between them imported a staggering 4.04 million m3 of teak logs and sawn timber direct from Myanmar between 2007-17, worth $2.79 billion..."
Date of entry/update: 2019-02-22
Type: Individual Documents
Language: English
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